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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant as G.O.P. Frets Over Ugly Phrase — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday disavowed the “send her back” chant that broke out at his re-election rally Wednesday night when he railed against a Somali-born congresswoman, as Republicans in Congress rushed …
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville — Scholars say the rally — where Trump supporters chanted “Send her back!” about Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar — is an escalation in America's slide toward fascism. — GREENVILLE, N.C. — Mark and Nancy Dawson think Muslims should be removed from the United States.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘Send her back’ a worst-case scenario for Trump
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Trump supporters' newest rallying cry — ‘Send her back!’ — reverberates across a nation fraught with racial tension
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Lay Out 2020 Strategy to Paint Democrats as Radicals
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Stop Chanting ‘Send Her Back.’ Citizenship Isn't Conditional.
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Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Trump falsely claims he tried to stop ‘Send her back!’ chants about Rep. Ilhan Omar
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Trump says he disagrees with ‘send her back’ chants, despite fanning flames for days
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USA Today:
Prosecutors weighed DOJ policy blocking indictment of a sitting president in closing Trump hush-money probe — WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors' decision to end an investigation into hush money payments to women claiming affairs with Donald Trump relied at least in part …
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House Judiciary asks Hope Hicks to clarify testimony about Stormy Daniels — Hope Hicks' House committee testimony released — (CNN)The House Judiciary Committee is examining the truthfulness of former White House communications director and Trump confidante Hope Hicks' statements …
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FBI believed Trump was closely involved in hush-money scheme, unsealed documents show
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
House Democrats demand Hope Hicks clarify testimony after Cohen document dump
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Adam Klasfeld / courthousenews.com:
Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
New Cohen documents reveal calls with Trump, National Enquirer publisher before payment
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Maria Ines Zamudio / WBEZ:
O'Hare Standoff: Federal Officials Detaining Three Children Of Undocumented Parents — Chicago lawyers, a representative from the Mexican Consulate and a congresswoman from Illinois have all met with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to find out why three American citizen children are being detained at O'Hare Airport.
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Manny Ramos / Chicago Sun-Times:
Feds detain 3 sisters at O'Hare for 12 hours; officials accused of setting trap for undocumented parents — Supporters of the family had gathered at the airport, fearing border officials were using children as bait to lure their undocumented parents. — Three girls were detained by U.S. Customs …
Vanessa Romo / NPR:
Acting Head Of Customs and Border Protection Says New Asylum Rule In ‘Pilot’ Phase
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New York Times:
Trump to Nominate Eugene Scalia for Labor Secretary Job — President Trump said he would name Eugene Scalia as his next secretary of labor, tapping the son of the former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia for a position with vast responsibility over the American work force.
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Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Trump taps Scalia's son for Labor secretary — President Donald Trump plans to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be the next Labor secretary. — The president announced the decision on Twitter after POLITICO first reported his plans earlier Thursday.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay the candidate has proposed for employees nationwide — Unionized campaign organizers working for Sen. Bernie Sanders's presidential effort are battling with its management, arguing that the compensation and treatment …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
It's Biden v. Harris Part 2 at next Democratic presidential debate — Former vice president Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris, who clashed at the first Democratic debate, will face off again on July 31, leaving the ideologically aligned Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts …
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
CNN sets lineups for second round of Democratic debates — CNN has determined the schedule for the second round of 2020 Democratic debates, which will take place July 30-31 in Detroit. — Details: A live, random drawing during a “special edition” of Anderson Cooper 360 kicked off the debate lineup on Thursday.
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Ted Hesson / Politico:
Trump officials pressing to slash refugee admissions to zero next year — The Trump administration is considering a virtual shutdown of refugee admissions next year — cutting the number to nearly zero — according to three people familiar with the plan. — During a key meeting …
Nicholas Watt / BBC:
Brexit: Scheme to block no deal ‘could involve Queen’ — Senior Tories seeking to block a no-deal Brexit are examining a radical plan involving the Queen, Newsnight has learned. — Highly placed figures in the rebel group are so concerned that the next prime minister could ignore …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump's Politics of Hate Began With a “Cynical and Evil” GOP Memo — Donald Trump's outburst of nativistic racism—viscerally and putridly displayed by his “go back” tweet-attack on four congresswoman who are people of color and the subsequent and shocking (even for Trump) “send her back” …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Betting on Race in 2020. He May Not Have a Choice. — The president needs the voters who approve of his record on the economy but disapprove of him overall. His racist attacks this week only hurt that cause. — Buried beneath the blustery bravado of Donald Trump's openly racist attacks …
Madeline Peltz / Newsweek:
I'm Paid to Watch Tucker Carlson Each Night. Don't Tell Me This Rant About Ilhan Omar Isn't Shocking | Opinion — Tucker Carlson raced to the defense of President Donald Trump and his racist tweets against “the Squad” this week, accusing the four non-white Democratic congresswomen …
Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
Gendered language like ‘manhole’ will soon be banned from Berkeley's city codes — (CNN)Soon, there will be no more manholes in the city of Berkeley, California. There will also be no chairmen, no manpower, no policemen or policewomen. — No, that doesn't mean a whole city will be without committee leaders and law enforcement.
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Ryan Prior / CNN:
The 200th firefighter just died from a World Trade Center-related illness — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted images of FDNY firefighters Richard Driscoll and Kevin Nolan, saying, “200 members of the FDNY have now succumbed to WTC-related illness. They didn't hesitate to run into danger.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump Hates America — The rest of us can love America well. — So apparently Donald Trump wants to make this an election about what it means to be American. He's got his vision of what it means to be American, and he's challenging the rest of us to come up with a better one.
Stuart Stevens / Washington Post:
Trump chooses open racism. What does his party choose? — In the American political system, parties have a certain “circuit breaker” role to play. Seven years ago, the Republican National Committee withdrew support from Senate candidate Todd Akin of Missouri after he tried to distinguish between …
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
E.P.A. Won't Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children's Health Problems — WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced it would not ban a widely-used pesticide associated with developmental disabilities and other health problems in children.
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Iran makes ‘substantial’ nuclear offer in return for US lifting sanctions — Iran has offered a deal with the US in which it would formally and permanently accept enhanced inspections of its nuclear programme, in return for the permanent lifting of US sanctions.
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Washington Post:
Trump says the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz — DUBAI — A U.S. naval ship destroyed an Iranian drone that flew too close and ignored multiple calls to stand down on Thursday, President Trump said. — The Iranian drone came within 1,000 yards of the USS Boxer …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Dem impeachment support gains new momentum — Public support among House Democrats for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump is growing despite Speaker Nancy Pelosi's attempts to halt the effort. — More than two dozen Democrats who hadn't previously taken …
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